INFORMATION CENTER OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP
Press release No. 338, January 9, 2003
Traffic policemen were killed. "Zachistka" in a refugee camp.
Report from Ingushetia
Traffic policemen were killed
On January 7, 2003 late at night in the centre of the town Karabulak, at
the crossroad of two highways Malgobek- Yandar-Nazran-Sleptsovsk (Ordzhonikidzevskaya),
not far from the office of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship unknown
people who were passing in a car produced two shots from self-fires and killed
two traffic police members of Ingushetia. The case is being investigated.
"Zachistka" in a refugee camp
On January 7, 2003 in the morning at the milk farm of the village Nasyr-Kort
(Nazran district), which had been used as a temporary dwelling place by Chechen
migrants a "zachistka" was held. As a result of this operation 13 Chechen
young men were illegally detained. In the course of action other infringements
were noticed, in particular, servicemen seized identification documents from
some migrants who were not detained. All the detained were taken to the militia
station in Nazran. The young people were seized in one of 4 sheep-folds where
refugees from the Chechen Republic found a temporary place to live in. They
say other 3 sheep-folds will be soon checked.
The objective cause of the illegal massive detention is still unknown. Nobody
of the detained young people were accused. There exist 3 versions of
the arrest reasons.
1. They were detained because of traffic police members had been recently
killed in Karabulak.
2. According to the preliminary data, the operation was carried on because
of the got criminal investigation report. A few days ago a girl who was born
in Ingushetia disappeared. Members of Nazran militia station received information
that the lost girl was seen in one of temporary migrant camps.
3. About 2 weeks ago there was a fight between local residents and Chechen
migrants. Perhaps, militiamen were asked to come by residents of Nasyr-Kort.
Anyway, migrants consider this illegal massive detention followed by rude
violations of human rights and law as another form of government pressure,
which aims at creating absolutely unbearable conditions for the migrants
in order to force them back to Chechnya.
(From our correspondent.).
Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.
This edition has been put out with the support of The National Endowment
for Democracy, as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership".